Sayeda Fatemeh Motahari in the blog Wadi wrote
This evening, when I was returning home, I was standing in the bus. The weather was hot and most of the passengers were tired and on the way back home (my mental assumption) when they reached one of the stations, one of the seated passengers got off and there was an empty seat. Let me also say that the empty seat was right behind me and I did not see or notice that the seat was empty. I was standing for myself when I saw someone hitting me on the back, I turned back; A lady who didn’t dress like me pointed to a chair and said, “Come sit.”
I was surprised! And I said, “Thank you, sit down” and he said: “No, you have a tent, it’s hard for you to stand, sit down, I’m standing”
For a moment (that is, one hundredth of a second), I thought that it would be difficult for me to stand with a tent? Now in this heat, is my tent disturbing? My answer was definitely no, I have chosen the tent cover for myself for many years and never in these years, my tent has been a source of disturbance and trouble for me.
I went to university with it, I studied, I went to the mountains, I had social activities, I was present in various groups, I went on a trip, etc. I never felt that this “tent” was difficult for me and prevented me from doing my work and activities.
I was thinking why that lady and others like her think that it is difficult and troublesome for us to wear a tent. I would even like to be able to sit down and talk to one of the people who have this type of thinking and listen to his words.
Certainly, one of the reasons may be the way some of my “coverings” work, or, for example, the unfamiliarity of “non-coverings” with the tent and forced use of it, leaving a not-so-good memory of the tent for them, and… several other reasons that may exist for each person. to have
Apart from women who sometimes ask me that I am not upset about being a chador, so far men have also asked me how do you wear a chador on your head, that too a black chador in this heat. But when something becomes internal and you accept it with all your heart and accept it wholeheartedly and without coercion, these issues don’t come up at all, and even when someone asks you how to cover your head, you are surprised and want to ask if it is possible. Didn’t the tent come up?
I went to university with it, I studied, I went to the mountains, I had social activities, I was present in various groups, I went on a trip, etc. I never felt that this “tent” was difficult for me and prevented me from doing my work and activities.
Certainly, one of the reasons may be the way some of my “coverings” work, or, for example, the unfamiliarity of “non-coverings” with the tent and forced use of it, leaving a not-so-good memory of the tent for them, and… several other reasons that may exist for each person. to have
